Quotes about purity

Dr. J. Otis Yoder - When You Pray

How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way.

Michael Bassey Johnson - Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.

Sara Ella - Unblemished

What you must first understand is the very nature of the Verity. Humans have a tendency for darkness and light. To choose good or evil. But no such mixture exists for the Verity or the Void. The Void houses no light. The Verity embraces no darkness. So when the Verity seeks a new vessel, it always searches out the purest heart--the person least likely to be swayed by darkness. A heart so true has the capacity to love like no other. And a love like that? It changes a person.

Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and supplies the hammerto knock away their chains. It shows them their nakedness and provides them the garments of purity. It shows them their poverty and pours into their lives the wealth of heaven. It shows them their sins and points them to the Savior.

A.D. Posey -

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something.

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.

Abraham Skorka -

Having personality does not mean being violent, rather honouring life by taking a stand. In this era so devoid of values, where people think it is safe to do everything that comes to mind, there is a need for purity. Man can and must have direction. Jews and Catholics must work together to help the man who suffers, and most importantly, look ahead.

Kit Alloway - Dreamfever

A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.

Muhammad Imran Hasan -

Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human....

K. Weikel - Building Monsters

Nothing is purely evil.

Criss Jami - Healology

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

Mahatma Gandhi -

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Is there any purity like prayer?

Ellen G. White - Patriarchs And Prophets

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.

Aleister Crowley - Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for all stain is impurity. A bee's swarm is evil — inside one's clothes. "Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art.Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothi

Diet Eman - Things We Couldn't Say

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

Bruce Lengeman - To Kill A Lion

If you are where I was before my process began, you can't imagine the place of victory, the place you can be free from the dominating desire for sexual stimuli. I am here to tell you that there is a place of freedom that you can know--a place where your desire for purity will subdue the lust of the flesh.

Bruce Lengeman - To Kill A Lion

The initial confrontation of the root is the most critical part of this journey.

Ravi Zacharias - Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

We have local churches where we meet together as believers. We no longer go to Mount Sinai to meet God. Why not? Because the place of the tabernacle and the temple is now replaced by the body—your body and mine—in which God meets with us and God dwells with us, and where we have communion with Him. When we come to the church now, we don’t come to the sanctuary; we bring our sanctuaries with us. This individual entity is the locus of appointment between God and me. There He meets. There He dwells

Alison Weir - Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

There can have been no doubt in Eleanor's mind as to what was expected of her as a wife. In her day, women were supposed to be chaste both inside and outside marriage, virginity and celibacy being highly prized states. When it came to fornication, women were usually apportioned the blame, because they were the descendants of Eve, who had tempted Adam in the Garden of Eden, with such dire consequences. Women, the Church taught, were the weaker vessel, the gateway to the Devil, and therefore the s

Sarah Mally - Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.

Bruce Lengeman - To Kill A Lion

The journey was brutal, the results were glorious.

Vishwas Chavan -

Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru - your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called life. But, it is the innocence, vision, and purity of yourself (Guru within) determines the degree of success you can achieve.

Joshua Harris - I Kissed Dating Goodbye

In the past, the starting point of my relationships was what Iwanted instead of what God wanted. I looked out for my needs andfit others into my agenda. Did I find fulfillment? No, I found onlycompromise and heartache. I not only hurt others; I also hurt myself,and most seriously, I sinned against God.

Nikki Rowe -

people are too quick to give their hearts away, i mean, be fearless; run wild into their arms, but for goodness sake know your worth. A being of wisdom knows their heart is the breath of their existence and only a honorable love deserves to feel it at its purest form.

José Saramago -

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.

Osamu Dazai - Schoolgirl

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

Liu Yiming - Awakening to the Tao

Murky Water, Dusty MirrorMurky water is turbid; let it settle and it clears. A dusty mirror is dim; clean it and it is bright.What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of clarifying the mind and perceiving its essence.The reason why people's minds are not clear and their natures are not stable is that they are full of craving and emotion. Add to this eons of mental habit, acquired influences deluding the mind, their outgrowths clogging up the opening of awareness - this is like water being mur

Tobias Wolff -

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

Sufian Chaudhary - World of Archangels

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.

José Saramago - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

the doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary’s purification can be acknowledged and ratified. Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others.

François Mauriac - Thérèse Desqueyroux

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blu

Umut Kisa -

We are all the same and need to think that we are innocent. However, we do blame others just to be innocent. We simply believe blaming will wash out ourselves. More we search innocence more we blame others. What we need to understand our purity instead of trying to prove that we are blameless.

Swami Satchidananda -

It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do it in anyway you can, in your own way. It doesn't matter. That's why I say 'peaceful body, peaceful mind'. And then you'll be useful. You don't have to become a useful person. You will be useful.

Ross Douthat - Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

Morihei Ueshiba -

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Thomas a Kempis -

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Unknown -

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Salman Rushdie -

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Juvenal -

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

James Madison -

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.

George Cardinal Pell - and Society

Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition. Purity of heart and the capacity to channel desires toward personal self-mastery in holiness are part of the high calling of the Christian life. These remain necessities, despite the promises of a false humanism that claims that human nature has neither limits nor boundaries, being infinitely plastic and malleable -- a vain and counterproductive attempt to liberate human

G.K. Chesterton - Manalive

No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?

Dalai Lama XIV - How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear.

Philippa Gregory - The Lady of the Rivers

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.

Sarah Mally - Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity

Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play with white roses that belong to others.

Alice Hoffman - Skylight Confessions

This was the purest instant he had ever experienced; the way he felt inside right then. If he had to be trapped in a forever he would choose this very moment. The black night, the few yellow leaves still clinging to the bare trees, the beautiful dark-eyed woman drinking whiskey, the way she gazed at him, the way she made him feel.

Mae West -

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Nikos Kazantzakis - Saint Francis

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Sunday Adelaja -

If a person thinks continually about the purity and holiness of God, then that holiness will begin to show itself in that person's life.

Tony Curl - Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck

A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!

Rebecca Goldstein - and Quantum Physics

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

David Millar - Racing Through the Dark

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

James Rozoff -

We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.

Johanna Moran - The Wives of Henry Oades

There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.

Chavela Vargas -

Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.[2000]

Karin Slaughter - Pretty Girls

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

J. Valor - Salome

He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…

Michael Biondi -

Purity is defined by the clearness of the stars

Dada Bhagwan -

Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize ‘Who am I?

Anonymous - Holy Bible: King James Version

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.

Francis de Sales -

Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin.

Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

Stormie Omartian -

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Ellen G. White - Patriarchs And Prophets

Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal propensities and it is impossible for the slave of passion to realize the sacred obligation of the Law of God, to appreciate the atonement, or to place right value upon the soul.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Sunday Adelaja -

God wants the church to become an authority to bring order, righteousness and purity to the country

Bamigboye Olurotimi -

The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.

Jerome K. Jerome -

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! And oh, these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for, when we believe in nothing else but meanness and lies, when we care for no living creature but ourselves!

Rachel Hamilton -

Respect is more valuable then the amount of times guys flirt with you.It's better to have one trustworthy real man then any amount of boys interested in you. The "cool" guys may not notice or date you but the right one will marry you.

Sarah Mally - Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

Shannon L. Alder -

The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.

John Piper - Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Chr

David Millar - Racing Through the Dark

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

Ashim Shanker - Sinew of the Social Species

He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And yet, he was helpless but to regard that unmistakable fear that gripped him in his dream as a sign that his unevenness lent him now to utter incongruity with this specter of past.

Tae Yun Kim - Seven Steps to Inner Power

When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

Louise Erdrich - The Antelope Wife

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

Sandra B. James -

A chastity device won't put out the flames of burning flesh.The Ultimate Guide to ChastityRemoving the Iron Panties

J.R. Tompkins -

She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn’t being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn’t find the money to have claimed her soul.

Billy Graham - Billy Graham in Quotes

[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result,

Janet M. Tavakoli - Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits

I find it appalling that the Church claims Mary consented at the age of thirteen to become the mother of God.”“But she did,” James said. “There is ample evidence to show she consented.”“Isn’t that the classic defense of the pedophile?” Helena asked. “In Christ’s time and even today in some countries in the Middle East and India, child marriages are customary. But that doesn’t make it right. In Europe and the U.S. we prosecute adults for preying on children. God would be arrested for impregnating

Rashmit Kalra -

Love is the state of being; it is not a personal feeling directed to a particular someone. Love is beyond romance and attraction.Love is when it doesn't matter when you get that person or not because you have met your own self through that person and that self will always be with you....within you.Love is not your loftiest fantasy you always thought will happen to you. Love is not wanting someone at any cost and cursing them if you do not "get" them. Love is who you are - your very essence felt

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Praying is the purest pleasure.

Ravi Zacharias - Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love

Each day, take a good look at that face before you and see, in the light of God's grace, the face of God reflected in that precious face. Know that while each distinct feature is unique there is a common blueprint for both of you. See the beauty or frailty, as the case may be, as the characteristic given to the individual and the trust given to you. The embrace, then, is an embrace of pure love and trust. Don't turn your back to the other's plea. As you look at each other face to face and see th

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Praying leads to purity.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The purity of prayer!

Leslie Ludy -

He does not want a girl who trifles with Christianity. He wants a woman who is radically given to Christ. He does not want a girl who prays tepid, lukewarm prayers. He wants a woman who lives in defiance of the powers of Hell. He does not want a girl who is self-adorning with the latest fashions and trends. He wants a woman who is adorned with the inner jewelry of Christ-given holiness. He does not want a girl who dishonors and belittles her parents. He wants a woman who honors the authorities G

Swami Satchidananda - The Yoga Sutras

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

Mahatma Gandhi -

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Emil M. Cioran - The Temptation to Exist

We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of de

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses.

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.